All guns blazing as Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon returns to glory days
Thousands of visiting runners from more than 80 countries are flocking to Cape Town this weekend to challenge themselves on one of the most beautiful marathons on the planet - the Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon.
Some say that if the...
New era of club diversity looks set to dazzle at this weekend’s ‘Rainbow’ Two...
Josh Groban sings powerfully of Changing Colours. It’s unlikely he was thinking about the Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon at the time he penned the lyrics, but it would not be inappropriate were he to welcome the thousands of running...
Gerda and Mdu inspiring exciting athletics talent at Phantane Athletics Club in Durban
Ten years ago, Mduduzi Vura Khumalo felt something was missing in his life. Today he is a man with a mission, fulfilled as never before and excited by the success of his venture – the establishment of Phantane Athletics...
Multiple winners Elroy and Helalia aim to add to their tally at Totalsports Two...
Thirty-six-year-old Boxer Athletics Club athlete, Elroy Gelant, has come a long way since his early days as a junior athlete in his Southern Cape hometown of George and he lines up in the Totalsports Two Oceans Half Marathon on...
Annie shakes off past woes to take the ASA Marathon Championship title in a...
Lesotho athlete Tebello Ramakongoana and Cape Town-based Annie Bothma raced to hard-fought victories at the Durban International Marathon in rainy weather over the weekend (Sunday 13 March), while Simon Sibeko and Bothma won gold medals and national titles in...
South African athletes impress at World Cross Country Championships while east Africans reign supreme
South Africa’s performance at the World Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia last month may not have been gilded with medals, but it represented one of their best achievements at that event since readmission in 1993.
Three athletes in the...
A Kenyan triumph as Koech and Obiri tough it out to win at the...
Kenyan athletes Benard Koech and Hellen Obiri were crowned champions at the Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Half Marathon in the northern UAE emirate this morning after an hour’s intense racing, but weather anomalies kyboshed record attempts on one of...
RAK draws running royalty
Running royalty arrived at Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) this week, as some of the world’s fastest distance runners headed to the United Arab Emirates city for the running of tomorrow’s (Saturday 18 February) Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon –...
Malusi and Mila make merry at Milkwood
Masiphumelelo athlete, Malusi Judase, raced to his second road title this year at the annual Milkwood Half Marathon at Kommetjie this weekend (Sunday 12 February), while Pretoria athletes Mila Geldenhuys and Mitsie van der Westhuizen ruled the roost in...
Lloyd Bosman takes the heat and the win as runners follow in Madiba’s footsteps...
A week short of his 35th birthday, seasoned Southern Cape athlete, Lloyd Bosman, raced to victory in the annual 27 for Freedom in heat-wave conditions at Drakenstein, near Paarl, this weekend but it was the improved form of runner-up Philani...